Daisy Sylvan - Profile - Women Film Pioneers Project

Daisy Sylvan – the producer, director and actress of two motion pictures, both lost — was born Elena Mazzantini in Rome. She moved to Florence, where she started a film production company, Daisy Film. In 1920 she became a widow of her husband, Francesco Rosso, and the beneficiary of a retirement fund, as we can infer by the registry office certificate only traced in recent times. Her education is still unknown, though she was not a Florentine nor an aristocrat, as has been erroneously reported by sources until today...